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Keep the Candle Burning

“People who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical…I used to write on the morning commuter train. It was sometimes no more than a paragraph a day, but it kept the candle burning.”Author Scott Turow

“Right out of high school I started doing stand-up [comedy]. Didn’t go to college, didn’t pursue anything else professionally really. The first time I went on stage I did a minute and a half and I bombed. It was terrible. But I wanted it so bad I kept trying and I learned how to write jokes.”
Louis CKLouis CK honors George Carlin (Where he also talks about chucking all his jokes he’d worked on over 15 years and his career finally taking-off.)

“[The Tim Ferriss Experiment] is about the struggle as much as anything else. It’s not TheTim Ferriss Highlight Reel…You see me get really injured. You see me screw-up really badly and make some really embarrassing mistakes. And it’s intended to highlight for people the fact that when you think of people you’re trying to emulate, these people make mistakes. Most of the incredible performers I know struggle—they still struggle.”Tim FerrissThe Moment podcast interview with Brian Koppelman

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